RNSE - 4GB Cards

[Digger]

Took a while for the despatch confirmation email to arrive even though always showed as being In Stock!

There may still be some left if you are quick

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000 ... ss_product

[Rick_RS4]

4.99 on ebay

[Digger]

Linky?

[HYFR]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4GB-SD-Card-4-GB- ... 837wt_1139

[Rick_RS4]

good find, theyre the ones.

[Digger]

Excellent. I've been decidedly cheeky cheap and asked for a p&p discount for ordering 5 of them.

[Steve_C]

Check you do actually get 4GB of storage space. Quite a few on ebay have significantly less storage space than advertised.

[PetrolDave]

Any card when formatted will show as less than the advertised size as the format information takes up storage space too.

IIRC a 4GB (raw) SD card after formatting to FAT32 to use with the RNS-E will have a usable capacity of 3.71GB (3,994,021,088 bytes).

Don't forget also that space is allocated in multiples of 4KB (4096 bytes).

[Digger]

Mine have arrived from the Amazon link above, straight into RNSE and showing up as 493 MB on the RNSE screen which in reality should read 4093MB to be a tad more accurate, and even more accurate is 3.81GB usable capacity according to my Win7 laptop. Will try and populate the card with 3-4GB of music and see what occurs.

I take it FAT32 is the optimal FileSystem for RNSE?

IIRC rules are less than 512 folders, Is it a 4096 files limit and up to 320kb bit-rate? MP3 only?

[amanda1]

Why not use an sd adaptor?

[PetrolDave]

I take it FAT32 is the optimal FileSystem for RNSE?

The RNS-E only recognises FAT, and it has to be FAT32 for anything over 2GB.

IIRC rules are less than 512 folders, Is it a 4096 files limit and up to 320kb bit-rate? MP3 only?

Nope. Limit is 512 files plus folders, don't know where you got 4096 from but whoever is saying that is just plain wrong.

MP3 only - yep.

Up to 320kbps - yep.

[Digger]

4096 was from my imaginative memory which does leak on occasion.

Amanda, adapter for larger capacity sdhc cards you mean? RNSE is not compatible and will not read sdhc cards no matter what size, speed etc. afaiui only basic MMC (read an old 32MB I had) and Secure Digital cards up to 4GB can be used. I assume that <4GB sdhc cards cannot be read utilising an adapter?

That is my understanding anyway. PetrolDave or CraigyB will no more methinks.

[amanda1]

4096 was from my imaginative memory which does leak on occasion.

Amanda, adapter for larger capacity sdhc cards you mean? RNSE is not compatible and will not read sdhc cards no matter what size, speed etc. afaiui only basic MMC (read an old 32MB I had) and Secure Digital cards up to 4GB can be used. I assume that <4GB sdhc cards cannot be read utilising an adapter?

That is my understanding anyway. PetrolDave or CraigyB will no more methinks.

No this is an adapter that takes the mini cards

[Digger]

sdhc are the mini cards Amanda.

[HYFR]

what about these bad boys !

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Eye-Fi-Wi-Fi-Geo- ... 793wt_1139

transfer files without taking them out of the car !